Story Ownership Quotes

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.

Every story you tell is your own story.

Piper reads the scripts, and we email a lot. Most of her comments are on the more technical side, like "This wouldn't happen. This is against the rules." She's been extremely respectful of our taking her story, and then veering left with it and taking it in its own direction. But, I always want her involved because she's the mother of all this.

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

The right way to enjoy 'Heavy Rain' is really to make one thing because it's going to be your story. It's going to be unique to you. It's really the story you decided to write.

I like having my own story remain my story.

I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

I think I did a lot for my division. My division is my story.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, and we're not even being afforded the opportunity to tell our own stories. I feel that is problematic.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.

Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.